The restaurant was empty. Chef Marco stood motionless behind the bar. He saw the critic's words flashing in his mind, they were neon lights above the entrance, taunting him. The silence pressed in on him. His hands trembled as he poured a glass of water, the ice clinking loudly against the crystal. He felt a sudden urge to run, to escape the suffocating weight of the words. He leaned against the counter, closing his eyes, willing the sensation to pass.

Emotion: anxious

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety
PC1 (Valence): -1.99 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -0.24

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion anxious. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 anxious stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the anxious emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the anxious vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
😣0.315
😖0.302
worse0.297
😰0.285
own0.267
Suppressed:
la-0.441
a-0.382
de-0.365
"-0.256
happy-0.256